Newcastle owner loses clothes and dignity in Chinese restaurant

Mike Ashley is renowned as an intensely private person. He rarely gives interviews, seldom attends the functions that attract other folks of his financial persuasion, and apparently lives alone in a cavernous Hertfordshire mansion. This shrinking violet reputation, however, is a little inconsistent with pictures of the much-maligned Newcastle owner stripping to his underpants in a Chinese restaurant.

If the above depiction of an undressed rotund sportswear mogul above offends your sensibilities, you definitely don't want to keep going on this post...